Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Yokohama, Japan, August 30 - September 3, 2007, has released nominations for this year's Hugo Awards, and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. This year's Hugos include for the first time two categories for best editor, short form and long form.

The listing here is alphabetical first by title, then by nominee. Links on nominees' names are to their entries in the Index of Nominees sections of the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards.

Two of this year's Best Novel nominees, Peter Watts and Naomi Novik, are first-time nominees. Vernor Vinge has 8 previous Hugo nominations and has won 4 times, twice in this category, for A Fire Upon the Deep in 1993 and A Deepness in the Sky in 2000. Charles Stross also has 8 previous nominations, and has now been nominated four times consecutively in the novel category, for Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, Accelerando, and now Glasshouse; Stross won the award for novella "The Concrete Jungle" in 2005. Michael Flynn has four Hugo nominations before this year, when he is nominated in both the novel and novelette categories; he has never won.

Two of the Best Novella finalists are also first-time Hugo nominees, Melko and Shunn, while Michael Swanwick has 20 previous nominations and has won 5 times, all in the short story and novelette categories. Robert Reed has 5 previous nominations, with 2 this year, and has never won; Robert Charles Wilson has 5 previous nominations, and won last year for novel Spin.

Only Mike Resnick of the Best Novelette nominees has ever won a Hugo, with 28 previous nominations and 2 more this year, and 5 wins in the three short fiction categories, including novelette "The Manamouki" in 1991. Geoff Ryman is a first-time nominee this year in any category; Paolo Bacigalupi has 2 previous nominations, Michael F. Flynn 4, Ian McDonald 2.

Best Short Story nominee Neil Gaiman has won 3 Hugos out of 4 previous nominations, most recently for short story "A Study in Emerald" in 2004. Tim Pratt is a first-time Hugo nominee this year, while Bruce McAllister has 1 previous nomination, Robert Reed 5 (with 2 this year), Benjamin Rosenbaum 1.

Best Related Book nominees Julie Phillips and Joe Siclari are a first-time Hugo nominees this year. Samuel R. Delany has 10 previous nominations and 2 wins, one for nonfiction The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 in 1989. Among Mike Resnick's previous nominations are two in this category, while Joseph T. Major has 2 previous nominations as fan writer, in 1996 and 1998, and John Picacio has 2 previous nominations and one more this year in the Best Artist category.

The two categories for editor, Editor, Short Form and Editor, Long Form, provide Lou Anders and Ginjer Buchanan with their first Hugo nominations. All the other candidates in these categories have previous nominations, though only Gardner Dozois and David G. Hartwell have ever won -- Dozois, 15 times, and Hartwell, once, last year.

John Jude Palencar is a first-time nominee in the Best Artist category. Other nominees include perennial favorite Bob Eggleton, with 25 previous nominations and 9 wins, 8 of them in this category. Donato Giancola has 8 previous nominations, and won in this category in last year. John Picacio and Stephan Martiniere have 3 and 1 previous nominations respectively; neither has won a Hugo.

Best Semiprozine nominees include first-time nominee Gavin Grant, whose co-editor Kelly Link has 2 previous nominations, in fiction categories, and 1 win, for novelette "The Faery Handbag" in 2005. Veterans Charles N. Brown and Dave Langford have dozens of previous nominations apiece and currently tie, at 27, for the most number of Hugo wins by anyone. Langford has a chance this year to break the tie, with nominations both in this category and for best fan writer.

Best Fanzine nominee Plokta won the past two years and has six earlier nominations. Challenger has now 8 consecutive nominations for Guy H. Lillian III, but has never won.

Best Fan Writer nominee David Langford has been nominated in this category every year since 1979, and has won in this category every year since 1989. John Scalzi was nominated last year for best novel; this is his first nomination in this category.

Best Fan Artist nominees Brad W. Foster and Teddy Harvia each have 18 previous nominations, with 5 and 4 wins respectively. Sue Mason and Frank Wu have 2 previous wins in this category, while Steve Stiles has 6 previous nominations and no wins.

Links

Links on authors' names in the listing above are to their entries in the Index of Nominees sections of the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards.